Word: thick
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hailstones the size of baseballs smashed into the Southern Airways DC-9 so hard that they cracked the pilot's 1½-in.-thick windshield. Turbulence tossed the jet wildly, and the rain was so heavy that it was later described as "a wall of water." First the left engine failed, then the right. Fighting for control, Pilot William McKenzie, 54, tried to glide the 25-ton plane to a safe landing...
...begin with, the vast coal deposits that Schlesinger is talking about are not located in the already developed, deep mines of Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Instead, they are found in thick seams near the surface in Colorado, Montana and Wyoming, where they are most economically recoverable by landscape-scarring strip mining. Some of the coal lies beneath federal land that has been set aside for recreational purposes, and the Sierra Club and other conservationist groups have been making it difficult to open that acreage to coal mining. Other Western environmentalists also are appalled. "It's an effort...
...Sayer: Endless Flight (Warner Bros.). For years, Sayer's own sweet soaring tenor (reminiscent of Elton John's) was obscured as he comported himself onstage in thick white makeup and a clown suit. Now Sayer has shucked his Petrushka image. Instead he diverts his energy into making rock music of a high order. A gifted songwriter, he has come up with an album of infectious melodies in a sophisticated rhythm-and-blues vein. In addition to the breakaway single You Make Me Feel Like Dancing, he has a winner in the ballad When I Need...
...hungers which move these men and women to destruction. Each character both resists and realizes his own identity through acting: dissimulation is the armor of internecine struggle, but after a while the masks become frozen in place, forever blocking out the vestiges of humanity underneath. Lies are stacked so thick that appearance and reality are confounded, and an anguished Queen cries out: "Scenes. I can't touch my sons except in scenes...
When we got back to the Square, the snowfall was dying out and it was late, but it could have been the next day or forty years earlier for all we felt of time. The snow lay thick on the ground, although it was already melting. We had a drink, and slid in the slush, and threw a few snowballs. But our night would soon be morning, so we headed for home. The next day, I set back to work on papers and readings I had left undone, with one more daydream to distract...